Re: Buying Nikon D80 any comments welcome

Joel <Joel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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There are many theories as to why CF is still in use. One is
that Pros have so much invested in them that camera companies
are afraid to change. I guess, but they change cameras often
too.


Thanks for the information. According to the Wiki a new and better
CF standard is coming. Also, it seems that CF is more reliable
than SD.

Few months ago when my last checked with the CF, and 32GB
is/was the
largest and 266-300X is/was the fastest. Comparing to SDHC I have
the 8GB SDHC Class-6 I got about a year ago for my GPS, and 8GB
is/was the lastest, and Class-6 is the fastest which I read it's
somewhere around 33-66X or so (I may be wrong as it's my first and
only SDHC and I got few different info).


Yeah, the SDHC are a bit of a conundrum. I have both a 4GB SD card
(150x) and a class 6 SDHC 4GB. The SD card is noticeably faster than
the SDHC. For whatever reason, the SDHC are much slower than their
smaller capacity brethern. The D80's biggest speed issue over the
D200 is that the D80 only has 2 lines reading the sensor compared to
4 on the latter.

According to the chart on Wiki, the theoretical limit of CF is 137GB.
That's a rather odd number for things usually held in powers of 2.
What is that 2^7 + 9GB?

Someone else posted about the size of the CF being easier to palm.
My hands are not small, but they are not huge either, and I don't
find the CF or SD to be too difficult to handle. Now manually
loading film in the dark into my dad's old Spotmatic was difficult.
Changing cards in a digital camera is quite easy. I also don't write
on the cards. I dump to a computer and burn 2 DVD's of the RAW
files.

I have never timed none of my memory cards (I have used 3-4
different
types in over a decade), 1 8GB SDHC Class-6, and still have over dozen
CF from 2GB up to 16GB. And because I use for digital cemaras so 166X
is the fastest I have.

And I read quite afew reports from different owners saying that
when
transfering date from memory card to computer the larger memory card
with same rating is usually slower than the smaller card. Me? I just
stick the card in reader (or portable storage) then go on with other
thing so a little shower won't bother me a bit.

And I came from very slow transfering memory card and devices
(not like
the one we have today) that would take 30-60 minutes to transfer
4-256M.


I know RAW files transfer much faster out of my D80 into my wife's Mac
than they do to either my desktop or laptop Winblows machine, eventhough
my laptop has a faster processor (it does run Vista business though).
.

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